[CPEO-BIF] Women & Children's Hospital, Buffalo, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cleanup requested at proposed surgical site
DEC taking comments on Kaleida project

By Richard E. Baldwin
BUFFALO NEWS (NY)
January 8, 2012,

Plans to build an outpatient surgical center for Women & Children's  
Hospital at Main and High streets are moving forward as state  
officials begin consideration of an environmental cleanup application  
for the site, which once was occupied by a gas station.

...

Ciminelli is expected to excavate 40 feet below ground level to  
remove contaminated soil, which could accommodate four levels of  
underground parking.

"The Ambulatory Surgery Center's [proposed] location is a brownfield  
site due to contamination from a petroleum leak that occurred at a  
gas station previously located on the corner of Main and High  
streets," according to the Kaleida Health Information Network.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.buffalonews.com/city/communities/downtown/article701958.ece

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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